Jonathan Robinson and Sean Trende in the Atlantic: Pundits and voters of all stripes lament just how extreme, polarized, and ideological American politics has become. But such grievances rarely come with advice for how ordinary people can address this… Continue reading

In his opinion for the Court in the NY gun case, Justice Thomas says that means-ends inquiry will not be part of Second Amendment analysis. On page 15 of his opinion, he goes on to say that this… Continue reading

Ben Jacobs for Vox: Much of what we know about Clark’s actions comes from a deposition from his former colleague Richard Donoghue, who was also acting assistant attorney general. Clark first approached his boss, acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, in… Continue reading

Justice Gorsuch wrote the opinion for 8 Justices, with Justice Sotomayor the lone dissenter. Key line from the majority opinion which seems right to me: Instead and as we have seen, where a State chooses to divide its sovereign authority… Continue reading

Shane Goldmacher NYT analysis: As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has built its public case that Donald J. Trump was at the center of an attempted coup, the panel has relied heavily on… Continue reading

Release via email: Today, more than two dozen current and former law enforcement and election officials from across the country announced the formation of the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections (CSSE). The committee is a cross-partisan national initiative that… Continue reading

With all the talk about whether the evidence presented at the January 6 committee’s hearings provide a basis for prompting Merrick Garland to bring criminal charges against Trump, the public discussion of how best to protect the nation’s democracy from… Continue reading

Ryan Goodman, Norm Eisen, and Barbara McQuade oped in WaPo.

NYT: Driven by fears of extremism and worries about what they see as an authoritarianism embodied in Ms. Boebert, thousands of Democrats in the sprawling third congressional district of Colorado have rushed to shore up her Republican challenger, State Senator… Continue reading

There’s an important distinction between non-partisan elections and primary-election reforms, such as Alaska’s adoption of the Top-4 primary (followed by RCV in the general election). Because this distinction is sometimes lost in discussions of reforms like that in Alaska, I… Continue reading